Word: minotaur
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...past or future in art." And so his ties with the past prove just as integral as his futuristic influence without forcing lines of cause or chronology. A subscriber to classical mythology, Picasso often lets his fascination with bullfights leave Hemingway's virile temporality for the era of the Minotaur. As a symbol of male sexuality for Picasso, the monster figures in a large number of paradoxically delicate etchings, ranting and raping through beds of Grecian flowers and maidens; sexual prowess incarnate of a man notorious for his series of wives and women. Fluctuating between cultivated neo-Classicism...
...into hundreds of millions-including, admittedly, the many people who have heard of him but have no idea of his pictures. The old man with the monkey face and the black, insatiable eyes squats at the center of this reputation, proclaimed and hidden by its coils: the archetypal Minotaur in his maze...
...concert, with Alexander Schncider conducting, consists of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622, Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks Concerto, a Corelli Concerto Grosso, and the Mozart G Minor Symphony, K. 183. Later concerts will include Schoenberg's Kammersymphonie, Stravinksy's Concerto for Strings, Elliot Carter's The Minotaur, and Haydn's Oxford Symphony, all of them extremely interesting pieces...
...play a few more tricks and spend some more money on elaborate sets. Out of nowhere (with no transition from the previous scene except a black screen to signal "shift"), we see Encolpius sliding down a dirt pile and into an arena to fight a man in a minotaur costume. At this point. the film begins to resemble Juliet of the Spirits, but only because the situation itself is so implausible that we look for psychological reality, finding no other. An exhausted Encolpius fights his minotaur through a maze, finally falling down pleading for his life with a line that...
...civilize, but it also enables him at times to tolerate the intolerable, which is not always a virtue. One moral danger of Viet Nam may be that it begins to convince the nation that the violent sacrifice of its sons, like the perennial feeding of Athenian youths to the Minotaur, is in the inevitable order of things. Certainly the Vietnamese themselves, their homeland a battleground for more than 20 years, have long since been infected by such a stupefying sense of human affairs. There is the chill of a death beyond the sum of the individual deaths creeping up through...